You've Got Mail (1998)

All Critics (85) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (26) | DVD (18)

The coincidences that make the destined lovers' paths cross aren't contrived with much finesse, but the characters get in some decidedly clever lines.

May 27, 2011 Full Review

Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

The clumsily loaded characterisation not only treats almost every other figure as dispensable, but doesn't even bother to make Meg and Tom properly sympathetic.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

Mail may not be as romantic as Sleepless, but it's wittier.

July 21, 2005 Full Review

Jeff Millar

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

A love story destined to be remembered as one of the best of the decade.

November 6, 2002 Full Review

Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Fully-stocked, well-oiled and soulless, You've Got Mail sure feels like a franchise operation -- all that's missing is a greeter and a discount card.

July 12, 2002 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Every time You've Got Mail is about to choke on its own cleverness, it's resuscitated by its extremely likable -- oh heck, let's just call them lovable -- stars.

June 18, 2002 Full Review

Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

A great big hug of a film.

July 2, 2012 Full Review

David Cornelius

Popcornworld

The well-honed dramedic performances by endearingly mock-cranky Hanks and quirky, cryin' Ryan add just enough weight to what might otherwise float away...[Blu-ray]

February 11, 2011 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Predictable-but-sweet romantic comedy.

December 29, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and America Online. Could you be anymore 1990s?

September 20, 2010 Full Review

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

...you've got a lot of saccharine sweetness in the film, but it's a good kind of sweetness, a gentle, loveable, delightful sweetness.

January 29, 2008 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

You've Got Mail is not as saccharine as I expected, but the sugar-coated love story offers us nothing new or original.

April 9, 2005 Full Review

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

There's no denying the on-screen chemistry between Hanks and Ryan, but still it never really seems to spark as much as it did in Sleepless in Seattle.

April 2, 2005 Full Review

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

There is something marvelously contrived about this classic situation: two attractive and incongruous characters who don't know what we know:They belong with each, and when the heck will they get together?

May 20, 2003

Jim Shelby

Palo Alto Weekly

You've Got Mail is probably not as engaging as Sleepless, with which it will inevitably be compared, but it has its moments.

February 8, 2003 Full Review

John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

It's a good date movie, and I recommend it. But don't forget to rent The Shop Around the Corner.

November 22, 2002 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

This film enchanted me, and even if it did work for me slightly better as a comedy than as a romance, it's still a great comedy -- and Ryan and Hanks are teriffic.

November 7, 2002 Full Review

James Rocchi

Netflix

Yes, You've Got Mail isn't strikingly profound or groundbreaking, but it's one of these movies that just make you feel real good.

September 10, 2002 Full Review

Kevin N. Laforest

Montreal Film Journal

Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's screenplay is adequately warm and funny, and the characters sufficiently charming, to draw audiences in to the unlikely but ultimately engaging love affair.

June 5, 2002 Full Review

Christine James

Boxoffice Magazine

Um filme carente de atrativos como os que fizeram de 'Sintonia de Amor' uma pequena obra-prima entre as comédias românticas.

May 31, 2002 Full Review

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

• 1. Joe Fox: In the meantime we'll just put up a big sign, 'Coming soon Fox Book Superstore, the end of civilization as you know it.'
  – Submitted by Mary Kathryn P (14 months ago)
• 1. Kathleen Kelly: I love daisies.
  2. Joe Fox: You told me.
  3. George Pappas: They're so friendly. Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?
  – Submitted by Lindy R (23 months ago)
• 1. Joe Fox: The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino.
  – Submitted by Lindy R (23 months ago)
• 1. Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake, as almost all hats are.
  – Submitted by Lea L (2 years ago)
• 1. Kathleen Kelly: What will NY152 say today I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You've got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail. From you.
  – Submitted by Lea L (2 years ago)
• 1. Kathleen Kelly: [on closing her store] But the truth is, I'm heart broken. I feel as though a part of me has died and my mother has died all over again and nothing will ever make it right.
  – Submitted by Lea L (2 years ago)

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